The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-11

were the only Northern Presidents
elected by the people. A remarkable
thing is that all the Southern Prssi-
dents were reelected by the people,
except Mr.. Polk, and he did not seek
a denomination. This fact speaks
volumes for the capacity of Southern
men for the administration of affairs.
Another curious fact is that every
Northern President had associated
with him ss Vice President man
from the Old South. Thus, the first
Adams had Jefferson, the second
Adams had Calhoun, Van Buren, he'd
K. NJ. johnson, Pierce had W. r.
King, end Buchanan had Brecken-
ridge, On the other hand, Jackson
served Que term as President with
Southern man, Calhoun, as Vice
President; Harrison and his associate
were both burn in Virginia; Lincoln
and johnson were both born In the
South.
In answer to the question, "Dld the
Old South furnish brave soldiers?"
Gen. Hill showed that it was the
Southern born Washington who led
the Continental army to victory; that
nearly all the battlefields of the NORTH
were drenehed with Sluthern blood;
that no battles of the Revolution com
pare in brilliancy with the defense Of
Moultrie, the defeat OF Ferguson at
Kings mountain, and the defeat #
lareton at Cowpens, all fought by
Southern troops on Southern soil.
SIN the war OF 1912 Jackson. Cf
North Carolina, and Harrison, CT Vir-
glnis, gained the most laurels and the
brilliant land fights of thai war were
in defense of New 0hsans, Mobile,
Craney Island and Baltimore, al
fought by Sou hern troops on South
ern soil. In this war the South fur
nished more than her proportion of
troops. The unmsritime South claims
among the naval heroes of that period
Decatur, OF Maryland; MacD0nough
and Jacob Jones, of Delaware; the
two Shubricks, Of South Carolina, and
others.
SIN the Mexican war the command.
ers in chief on both lines were born in
Virginia. In this war the Old South
gave $1,000 soldiers out of a popula-
ton of 9,521 ,437; the North, out OF a
population OF IL, 676, 439. gave but a.
098 volunteers, and all New England
gave only 1000 volunteers
"Coming down to the civil war, the
President on the Union side wss a
Southern born man, his successor was
born in North Carolina, and the COM
mauding general, who first organized
his troops, was Virginisn. His great
war secretary, the Carnot of that day,
was born in Edgecombe county, N.
O., though he would never admit it.
1.-THE Union generals who struck us
the heaviest blows, next to those OF
Grant and Sherman, were from our
own soil. From West Point there
came forth forty.five graduates Of |
Southern birth who became Federal
generals. Most of these were good |
officers, and some OF them were eu-
perb. / could name six or eight of
them who did the very best they
could for their native land by going
on the Federal side. In addition to
these foIty-fve West Point Southern
ers in the Federal army, some Of the
high officers of that army were born
in the South, but not educated at West
Point-Joseph r Hawley (now Sena-
tor from Connecticut), John G Free
mont, the three Crittendens, Frank
Blair, etc. FarrsRut, of Tennessee,
was considered the hardest fighter and |
most successful commander in the
United States navy. Winslow, of
North Carolina, was made a rear sd-
miral for sinking the Alabsms, and |
Goldsborough, Of Maryland, WAS made
a rear admiral for the capture OF Hat
teras.
1.-THE South had, from first to last,
100000 men in the field, out of pop
ulat on of 100000. The Union army |
rad in the field, from first to last,
1850, 1872 men, # whom 54l,2l6 fight |
ing men were furnished by the South. |
From frat to last, ours was ths worst |
fed, worst clothed and worst equipped |
army in the world, deficient in medi-
cal stores, in ordnance stores, in
wagons, tents, shoes even in artillery
and rifles. Theirs was the best organ
lied, best equipped and the most pam
pered army in the world, with abund-
ant commisssriat, medical supplies,
transportation, ordnance stores, etc.
Among the naval heroes who fought
for the Old South We're, Semmes, the
Chevalier Bsyard of the ocean; j. ].
Waddell (of an illustrious North Caro-
lima lineage), almost the peer of
Semmes as a successful cruiser; nj. F.
Maury, the greatest benefactor to the |
merchant ard naval marine the world |
hes ever known; the brave W. F.
Lynch, the Christian scholar aud ex-
plorer; the gallant Pegram, Hunter,
Alex ander and Others"
Referring to the territory that has
been acquired by the United States
Gen. Hill showed that under Southern
Presidents the area Of the United
States has increased from 8307S9
square miles to 1908, 1884 square miles;
that is, it is now four times as big as it
was. There is not a man OF intelli-
gence in the Union who docs not
know that this vast increase has been
due to Mr.. Jefferson and tho old South.
'Oh! men of the loyal North, in
view of what the old South has done
in quadrupling the national domain,
with all OF the ineslimable advantages
there I, let rs cry quits and stop ia k.
ing about JEFF Davis and the sour ap-
pie tree, and talk rather OF Jefferson,
Monroe, Tyler and Johnson.
In regard to the colored people,
Gen. Hill said: "Tne philanthro-
pists used to tell OF the cruelty and
brutality OF slave holders to their
slaves, and said that they had reduced
the negroes TO the lowest state Of igno.
rance, barbarian and bestislity. But
in the reconstruction period, the phi
lanthropists underwent a radical
change of views and discovered that
these negroes, whom they had de-
scribed as more savage and degraded |
than the barbsrians on the Congo,
were not merely enlightened and civil
lied enough to be fIeemen and voters,
but also to be United States Senators
and Congressman, foreign ministers,
consuls aud marshals, Governors OF |
States, judges, members OF State Oabi.
nets, etc. am glad that the philan-
thropists found out that the Old
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